The patch titled
make kernel ignore bogus partitions
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
make-kernel-ignore-bogus-partitions.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
From: "Mike Miller (OS Dev)" <mikem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sometimes partitions claim to be larger than the reported capacity of a
disk device. This patch makes the kernel ignore those partitions.
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Cameron <steve.cameron@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
fs/partitions/check.c | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff -puN fs/partitions/check.c~make-kernel-ignore-bogus-partitions fs/partitions/check.c
--- 25/fs/partitions/check.c~make-kernel-ignore-bogus-partitions Tue May 9 12:40:47 2006
+++ 25-akpm/fs/partitions/check.c Tue May 9 12:40:47 2006
@@ -461,6 +461,11 @@ int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *di
sector_t from = state->parts[p].from;
if (!size)
continue;
+ if (from+size-1 > get_capacity(disk)) {
+ printk(" %s: p%d exceeds device capacity, ignoring.\n",
+ disk->disk_name, p);
+ continue;
+ }
add_partition(disk, p, from, size);
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD
if (state->parts[p].flags)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mikem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
make-kernel-ignore-bogus-partitions.patch
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